🌙 Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

[its_dad_sanzo]

Who: Genjyo Sanzo, Koumyou Sanzo, Amberdrake.
What: OP & thread 1: Koumyou Sanzo visits his son in the middle of the night. Thread 2: Drake and Sanzo talk about Koumyou and briefly about what went down in thread 1. Thread 3: Koumyou and Sanzo talking some more.
Where: Drake and Sanzo's house in Attleton.
When: OP & thread 1: The same night as Singles Night, after Koumyou eventually leaves. Thread 2: Around noon, the day after. Thread 3: Evening of the same day as thread 2.
Warnings: FEELS. Angst, suicide mention, probably Warm And Fuzzy Feelings, y'know, the whole gamut.

It was very late at night when Koumyou glanced up to find himself having wandered to his son's house. The intense moonlight lit the cozy little cottage enough to make it impossible to not know where he was.

But, it was far too late at night.

He wouldn't knock.

Koumyou sat down on the wide, circular short step before the door, and sighed quietly. He tucked his legs half-under him, and wondered what he was doing, just sitting out here on the cold stone. In the morning, he could call Kouryuu from his apartment, hear his voice. Right now? There was nothing to do but lurk, and wallow in his own sadness.

Between the other night at the shrine with the little golden dragon, and several more instances tonight, he'd spoken of his death and the burden it had left on his young son many times, recently. Too many times...

He was no therapist, like Amberdrake. Ripping open his own wounds constantly wore on him far faster than it did the kestra'chern. Right now, he just wanted to be near his son. And so here he sat, breath fogging in the cold air.

The sun would rise when the sun would rise. And perhaps the moon would still be out when he did.

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[its_dad_sanzo]

"Ah?" Koumyou inquired, fork lifted halfway to his mouth. Graceful, Koumyou. "You think so?"

[badly_behaved_priest]

"It's already late and we have a spare room." Duh, simple enough. It was best for both of them if Koumyou stayed, anyway, after all that.

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Okay," that was an extremely easy sell. Koumyou didn't mind more time around his son, even just being in the same house was nice. He finally started eating.

"You know, one funny thing did come of all the dark conversations tonight," he said in between properly-swallowed mouthfuls of food. "I mentioned to someone that if I was reincarnated, I'd be... well, younger. What if I became your student!"

[badly_behaved_priest]

Sanzo made a disgusted sound at the idea, mostly just to keep up his asshole veneer. That was an odd thing to think about, he wouldn't even know it was Koumyou! He didn't think he was very qualified to be dealing with children anyway.

"I have enough to look after without taking on a student. I have one clingy monkey and I didn't even want that one." Stupid, blockheaded gluttonous jackass Goku was. Sanzo was annoyed with how much he missed him.

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Y'know, they called me 'the demerit monk' as a student..." Koumyou added cheerfully, "I'm sure I'd be just what you deserve in a pupil."

He was just teasing, of course. Except for the part where he wasn't. It was a little comforting, to think they might cross paths again even back on their world. Who knew how long this... thing, on this world would last? Forever, if Koumyou had a say, but he knew that he didn't.

[badly_behaved_priest]

"I'm not a teacher. Not being suited to it is something I picked up from you, master." Honestly knowing Koumyou's nickname through training didn't surprise him, young Kouryuu had chided him often for skipping out on teaching others. He must've been hell as a student.

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Mmhm," Koumyou didn't care, he thought the idea was a fantastic one.

"Do you mind if I take a soak after this?" he asked, when he was once more safely between swallowing his food. At least it wasn't like talking to said aforementioned monkey. And he knew Sanzo wouldn't have a problem with his using one of the house's bathtubs, but he was determined to be a polite house-guest!

[badly_behaved_priest]

"I don't care." Which translated to "sure, go ahead" in grumpy Sanzo. He'd just set an alarm on his phone to check to see if Koumyou had fallen asleep or not. Phones were really convenient.

"Drake won't be awake til noon, don't be loud in the morning."

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Of course," and of course he'd fall asleep in the tub. He'd been doing that for all of Sanzo's childhood, hadn't he?

[badly_behaved_priest]

Given how late it was, Sanzo was likely to doze off while waiting on that phone alarm. He only tolerated being awake at night if he had something serious to do.

"Hn." Sanzo was content to wait for Koumyou to finish eating and got up to take his plate. He'd do dishes in the morning.